The Importance of Psychiatric Support

The efficacy of individual supportive-expressive psychotherapy has been tested with patients in methadone maintenance California drug rehab who had psychiatric problems. In a comparison with patients receiving only drug counseling, both groups fared similarly with regard to opiate use, but the supportive-expressive psychotherapy group had lower cocaine use and required less methadone. Also, the patients who received supportive-expressive psychotherapy main-tained many of the gains they had made. In an earlier study, supportive-expressive psychotherapy, when added to drug counseling, improved outcomes for opiate addicts in metha-done alcohol rehab with moderately severe psychiatric problems.

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